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Infinitives and Gerunds right, top to bottom, or diagonally –

students should say “Bingo!”
Personal Interests 5. The winner is the first student to say
“Bingo!” and have the correct infinitive or
gerund forms marked.
Activity type: Bingo
6. You can model the activity by reading
Level: High-Beginning / Low- the first sentence aloud and prompting
Intermediate students to provide going as the form of
go that must follow enjoy. Make sure
Purpose: Students listen to sentences students mark an “X” over going.
that require verb + infinitive and verb + 7. Read the sentences, pausing for the
gerund combinations. Students practice verb that you do not say, and pausing
transforming base forms into the correct about five seconds between sentences.
infinitive and gerund forms and then
identify them on a game board. Sentences (answers in parentheses):
1. Sara enjoys to the
Set-up: Individually or pairs beach in the summer. (going)
2. Tim prefers inside
Time: 5 minutes to prepare / 15 minutes when it’s hot. (to be)
to do the activity 3. Some people like
movies at a theater. (to see OR seeing)
Materials Preparation:
4. Lee enjoys movies
1. Make one copy of the Student’s Page
on his computer. (watching)
for each student or pair of students.
5. Carla loves
2. Be sure each student (or pair) has a
computer games in the evening. (to play
pen or pencil.
OR playing)
6. Tim likes new
card games. (to learn OR learning)
Procedure 7. Ana enjoys time
with friends on weekends. (spending)
1. As a warm-up, ask students what 8. Binh prefers books
they enjoy / like / love doing when they on weekends. (to read OR reading)
have free time. Correct any errors in 9. Claudia likes in the
their use of gerunds and infinitives. park. (to run OR running)
2. Pass out the Student’s Page and ask 10. Sam loves blog
each student (or pair) to choose either posts in the evenings. (to write OR
Board A or Board B. Tell them to fold writing)
their paper in half so they are only 11. Lara and Bill like to
looking at the board they chose. live music in the park in the summer. (to
3. Tell students you are going to read listen OR listening)
some sentences aloud. Each sentence
has a verb followed by a second verb.
Do not say the second verb. Students Follow-up
should look at their board and find the
correct gerund or infinitive form of the Ask the winning student to read aloud
verb you do not say. (Note: the correct the four gerund or infinitive forms with
form is on Board A or Board B, but not “X”s.
necessarily on both.)
4. If they find a correct form, tell
students to write an “X” over it. When
they have four “X”s in a row – left to

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Infinitives and Gerunds | Bingo

Personal Interests
1 Choose one bingo board – either Bingo Board A or Bingo Board B.
2 Listen to the teacher and look at your board. When your teacher pauses, look for the
correct gerund or infinitive form that completes the sentence. Write an “X” over the
correct verb form on your board.
3 When you have four “X”s in a row, say, “Bingo!” The row of “X”s can be left to right,
top to bottom, or diagonal.

Bingo Board A

to run going creating to be

helping to learn to spend seeing

needing watching to do to write

to play to listen reading to dance

Bingo Board B

to watch doing to take to read

learning to help writing to create

to see listening going spending

running dancing to need playing

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